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CHAPTER II
REINCARNATION
No subject touched upon by my correspondents has evoked more inquiry than Reincarnation. Though accepted almost without exception by the Eastern peoples, only a small proportion of those comprising the Western nations have given their attention to this belief, so widely held in past ages. In France and America are to be found a considerable number of individuals who have endeavoured to satisfy themselves on the question-Do we return at intervals to bodily existence on the earth in order to further our development as human beings? I have already related the investigations made by myself and others with subjects under hypnosis, and have given instances of the recovery of the memory of past lives by those subjects. The total result of these investigations, and the examination of evidence for and against reincarnation on this planet is to the effect that there is not sufficient proof to conclude that reincarnation is universal, but there is adequate